单词 | response bias |
释义 | > as lemmasresponse bias response bias n. chiefly Psychology a systematic tendency for respondents in a questionnaire, psychological test, etc., to give responses which do not reflect their true beliefs, typically because a question is phrased in a leading manner or because a given response is considered more socially acceptable; spec. a tendency to give a positive response (cf. response set n.); a bias in a voluntary survey caused by a greater likelihood of reply in people who give a particular response. ΚΠ 1944 D. G. Humm & K. A. Humm in Jrnl. Psychol. 18 55 (title) Validity of the Humm-Wadsworth temperament scale: with consideration of the effects of subjects' response-bias. 1975 S. G. Paris in F. Restle et al. Cognitive Theory I. xi. 234 A response bias is often observed in young children and, indeed our kindergarten subjects responded affirmatively to 72% of the questions. 1986 Law & Human Behavior 10 322 Correctly leading questions were included to determine whether participants, particularly adults, developed a response bias. 2007 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. b3 Only about 25 percent of the survey forms were returned, raising the question of response bias: Prisoners who had been raped may have been more likely to return the questionnaire. < as lemmas |
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